Sorry but the bolded bit is utterly rubbish, there is no logical link between being a driver and thus knowing everything about racing, there are drivers who can go on to run a race team, be strategists in terms of racing, or build cars, and are just generally very smart, and there are drivers who know which pedal makes the car go faster and which one makes it slower, and are complete cretins aside from that.
Brundle knowing more than us would be Brundle even once in a while calling who is fast, and who is slow correctly. He misses huge things in races, calls whats going on wrong consistently, makes wrong predictions and is just generally crap.
Being an ex pro means exactly nothing in terms of how much someone knows about a sport, nothing. Mark Lawrenson knows absolutely and completely nothing about football and talks 100% crap, he's never right about anything, he's an ex footballer.
As for speaking to the drivers, most of what they say gets repeated on camera, and most of it is handed to them word for word by PR people, its meaningless guff most of the time(though unhappy drivers tend to be less careful, or feel the need to make excuses.... about their balance).
The fact that not only Brundle's commentary during a race, but most of his prerace build up is all complete crap suggests he absolutely doesn't know what he's talking about. Ultimately he's doing basically the same job as Crofty, who also gets just about everything wrong. People get jobs they don't deserve and can't do well incredibly frequently.
Might not be remembering correctly but seem to remember Brundle banging on about how good Williams and Mclaren looked preseason......
His grid walks are embarrassing, and arsey and he parades around like he's some kind of hero to everyone because he used to drive.
During the last race Kimi was something along the lines of 15 seconds ahead, same pace as ALonso at the time and both needed one more pitstop each, so Brundle called Alonso the clear favourite to win the race at that point in time... he's a complete idiot.
I know a thing about football or two and I think Mark's opinions on the game are bang on 99 percent of the time. If anyone gets it wrong it's the others around him.
I'll be the first to say that I absolutely love Brundle. His love for Formula 1 is intoxicating, like Ted's. I find his voice brilliant for commentary, it's got the perfect tonal balance imo for a Formula 1 commentator.
Who really cares if he predicted that Williams would be strong from winter testing and yet they turned out to be bunched up in the midfield again? Seriously... why let trivial things like that bother you??
If there's one thing that can be said about Formula 1 it's that it is unpredictable. How many of us were placing bets on Kimi winning the first race after the last winter test?
None. That's how many.
His grid walks imo are brilliant. He asks good questions and muscles his way in to get us, the most important people of the show, our answers too.
I'll take a good guess that you yourself have never actually commentated to millions of people at anything.
Could you imagine how nervous most people would be in that situation. Not only commentating to millions of people but commentating live as well, Formula 1 is fast too. Things are going to get said that may not be totally correct all of the time. It's not like Crofty and Brundle are sitting their commentating on a dull game of Cricket at Lords is it?
I'd suggest calming down, and if you don't like the Sky commentary team, or any of the coverage then you can always wait for the BBC highlights.
